MUSICKIT & Mr. E's Virtual Music Classroom

Music Activities for Kids and Resources for Teachers
In My Grandmother's Garden MUSIC FUN page

Fun with making, listening, reading, and writing music

1. How many 'DO’s' can you count in In My Grandmother's Garden

2. Find a measure that contains the rhythm "Ti-ti Ta Ti-ti Ta".

Use the music to make your own song about somewhere important to you. Tell about the place and things that happen there.

3. How many measures have 4 “Ta”s or quarter notes with a unison repetition of the same pitch?

Do like flowers? Do you know their names? Look here for the names of the flowers in the book and intersting information about them.

5. Make your own hat.

6. Musical Treasure Hunt

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Teacher’s wanting lesson plans on ways to use the above resources CLICK HERE!

- DISCOVER the world's first MUSICTALE:

MUSICKIT is proud to present our own 2002 GRADIVA AWARD Nominee
In My Grandmother's Garden by Kit Eakle; Illustrations by Jean Eakle
"The first children's storybook in which music and text play an equal role."
Have a look at a pdf reproduction of the book HERE:

					A story in song, of a Young Girl's discovery of the POWER OF ART. Includes musical notation as an integral part of the story
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			Also NOW available at MUSICKIT.COM: LISTEN TO THE MUSIC: A Classroom Classical Music Listening Program Listen to the Music contains listening activities and descriptions of 42 works by a wide variety of classical and modern composers. Composers include: Bartok, Vivialdi, Mozart, Handel, J. S.Bach, Ravel, Debussy, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, ClaraSchumann, Ravi Shankar, Duke Ellington, Villa Lobos, Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Benjamin Britten and more... The book includes thematic indeces for classroom themes, special holidays and musical concepts to help teachers plan classroom activities.